: re: ISIS Is Losing in Iraq. But What Happens Next?

To the Editor: Of course, "[i]n Iraq, the good news always seems to come mixedwith bad". that's because Iraq is dead. The artificial state that wasinvented by Sykes and Picot in 1916 was doomed when L. Paul Bremerpurged its only national institution--the army--of Sunnis, and it diedwhen David Petraeus armed and empowered sectarian militias. Primeminister al-Abadi may indeed be "a good man in a difficult position"but he's pounding on the chest of a corpse. All the king's horses andall the king's men couldn't put Iraq together again. The U.S. would befoolish to try.Barry Haskell Levine